Telecom Subscriber Base Count In India

[KanagaDeepan 1,084]

wht do they gain by faking now that spectrum allotment on numbers is withheld..rather i believe that by hook or crook(by hiding condtions) they might have more or less achieved the number

By saying these number of additions in a month, they can gain some faith on unknowing customers , it will be good for ad also, for which Uninor is so famous for (HIDING CONDITIONS on Ad of-course)

[savramesh 37]

By saying these number of additions in a month, they can gain some faith on unknowing customers.

but they are not marketing by saying they did 1.2 in one month.. few of us know about their addition last month because of rimweb..

Edited January 14, 2010 by savramesh

[ravi_patent 28]

well said ramesh...moreover as a listed company in norway ,telenor cannot afford to show fake connections..btw uninor's numbers will cause real worry to vodafone and airtel..which might be blessing in disguise for consumers..

also see

http://www.livemint.com/2010/01/13220233/Uninor8217s-success-spells.html

Uninor, the brand under which the joint venture between Unitech Wireless Ltd and Telenor ASA launched cellular operations in India, has done rather well, adding 1.2 million subscribers in December, its first month of operations. And that too with operations in just eight circles, one of which was launched towards the end of December. According to a report by Anand Rathi Research, this implies a share of 13% of total net adds in the eight circles it operates in. This is based on the entire industry’s net adds in November, since complete numbers for December are still not available.

One of the factors for the relatively high share in net adds in its very first month of operations is the company’s extensive marketing and distribution reach in the eight circles.

The other major factor, according to an analyst, is that the company’s local call rate of 29p/minute may have been misleading for some subscribers. While the call rate seems very attractive at first because it is far cheaper than the market average of around 50p/minute, there is, say analysts, a hidden cost with Uninor’s plans. Depending on the plan subscribers are in, there’s either a call set-up charge of 39p or a daily rental of Rs2. While these plans will suit frequent callers as well as those who make long calls, there is an element of cost which is not readily apparent.

Having said that, Uninor’s launch has further increased capacity in the telecom space and the worry for incumbents has far from abated. With Uninor and TataDoCoMo still to complete their nation-wide rollouts and Etisalat still to launch services, the decline can be expected to continue. Number portability is expected to worsen matters, as a far higher degree of subscribers will be willing to switch service providers. HSBC Research in a recent report points out that it expects another round of tariff cuts once number portability is implemented.

Meanwhile, shares of Bharti Airtel Ltd have moved around 16% higher compared with its lows of Rs275 in end-November. As HSBC’s analysts point out, the recent strength in telecom shares is likely to be short-lived. After all, the full extent of the downside in tariffs is yet to be seen.

Edited January 14, 2010 by ravi_patent

[KumaarShah 143]

But they will use the figures extensively while marketing and selling their service to retailers....

[savramesh 37]

i think they are giving attractive gifts/commission to retailers and making them sell more sim..

[rahulmalik_81 1]

i think they are giving attractive gifts/commission to retailers and making them sell more sim..

i dont fully agree with you.

in reality the companies are selling sims at a very low cost(u can say negligble)thats why dealer are giving it free.

here in delhi airtel has started a service where u can get a prepaid sim free delivered to your doorstep.

[savramesh 37]

the company make money from after sale service..

[savramesh 37]

Tata Tele leads mobile user addition with 3.3 mn in Dec

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Tata Teleservices has added 3.3 million subscribers in December 2009, becoming the number one operator in terms of subscriber addition for the fifth consecutive time.

The dual technology (GSM and CDMA) service provider today said in a statement the company has become the number one telecom operator in the country for the fifth consecutive month in December, in terms of new subscriber additions, adding more than 3.3 million subscribers in the month.

With the new additions, the company has overtaken BSNL to become the fifth largest telecom firm in terms of subscriber additions, with over 57 million subscribers as on December 2009.

TTSL's GSM service DoCoMo brand coupled with its CDMA brand (Tata Indicom) pay-per-second billing system recently have catapulted the subscriber base of the company. Earlier Idea Cellular had replaced BSNL from number four position.

State-run BSNL has 5.72 crore wireless subscribers.

Bharti Airtel, the country's number one telecom operator in terms of mobile subscriber base has added 2.8 million subscribers in the same period. It is the market leader with 118.8 million subscribers. In total mobile user base Bharti Airtel is followed by Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular, TTSL and BSNL.

"Tata Teleservices has added 3,336,476 new subscribers in December 2009 from its CDMA and GSM operations put together. In November 2009, too, TTSL had showed a healthy growth in new additions, with 3,329,215 new subscribers being added, the statement added.

[me_saket 73]

now i think by JAN2010

TTSL will be on 3rd position after airtel and "-----".

tata indicom+tata docomo+ virgin cdma+virgin GSM...

and if tata got 3g(hope aution will held march, and spectum is received in 6month)

then indicom+docomo+virgin+3G will make TTSL to number 3rd largest in india...

[savramesh 37]

TABLE-India adds record 19.1 mln mobile subscribers in Dec

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Mobile firms in India added a record 19.1 million subscribers in December, taking total users in the world's fastest-growing, and second-largest, wireless market to 525.15 million, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said.

In November, the firms had added 17.65 million users. Mobile subscribers grew at a monthly average of nearly 15

million in 2009 to be 51 percent higher from 346.89 million at end-2008.

Sixth-ranked operator Tata Teleservices [TATASL.UL], 26 percent owned by Japan's NTT DoCoMo (9437.T: Quote, Profile, Research), led additions for the fifth month in a row with 3.34 million new users in December.

Following are the additions by mobile operators and their total subscriber base.

COMPANY -> ADDITIONS (MLN) -> TOTAL USERS (MLN)

Bharti Airtel -> 2.85 ->118.86

Reliance Comm -> 2.80 -> 93.80

Vodafone Essar -> 2.79 -> 91.40

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd -> 2.08 -> 62.86

Idea Cellular -> 1.70 -> 57.61

Tata Teleservices -> 3.34 -> 57.33

Aircel -> 1.67 -> 31.02

Sistema Shyam Teleservices -> 398,403 -> 3.04

Loop Telecom -> 54,276 -> 2.65

Unitech Wireless -> 1,208,130 -> 1.21

HFCL Infotel -> -887 -> 0.34

S Tel BTEL.BH -> 141,411 -> 0.14

Note: Unitech Wireless, majority owned by Norway's Telenor, and S Tel started mobile operations in December.

Wireless tele-density, or mobile connections per every 100 people, was at 44.73 at the end of December, the regulator

said.

Fixed-line subscriber base declined to 37.06 million in December from 37.16 million in November. Including fixed-line

phones, India had 562.21 million phones at the end of December, or a tele-density of 47.89.

[savramesh 37]

Vodafone Essar’s ARPU At Rs.209, Rev Up 9.1%

As expected, Vodafone Essar has added a much higher 8.56 million connections in the quarter ended December 2009. In the previous quarter, it added 6.3 million. The #3 telco had a total of 91.4 million connections as of December 2009. In October, there were reports of the telco experiencing a rise in connections in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Increased additions have directly led to lower ARPUs: the operator suffered a fall in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) to Rs 209 from Rs 222 reported for the previous quarter. But other operators have fared no better: Bharti Airtel’s ARPU fell to Rs 230 and Idea’s to Rs 200, while RCOM’s was Rs 149.

Competition pressures are increasing for Vodafone with many operators offering per second billing pan-India and the growing number of Multi-SIMs. It has recorded higher annualised churn in prepaid connections at Vodafone at 38.9%, postpaid churn was at 26%.

Total voice minutes, which is the total volume of incoming, outgoing and visitor calls on the Vodafone Essar network have risen to 83,172 million in the quarter. The telco has 93,000 base stations in India covering 72% of the population.

Financials

Year on year growth in both voice and data revenues have lifted in the quarter and total revenues were up 9.1% to GBP 767 million for the quarter ended December 2009. Comparatively, Idea’s revenues were up 5.9 percent QoQ for the quarter ended December 2009, but both Bharti Airtel and RCOM experienced sequential declines of 4.79 percent and 3.9 percent respectively.

[savramesh 37]

GSM subscriber base at 394.2 mn; Jan. sees 13.7 mn new users

The GSM operators together added 13.7 million new subscribers in January, taking the overall GSM subscriber base to 394.2 million with Bharti Airtel leading with 2.85 million.

Last month’s GSM addition is marginally up from the December numbers when the operators had added 13.1 million.

Airtel is closely followed by Vodafone which added 2.7 new users, say the data released by GSM operators body COAI.

Total user base of Bharti Airtel soared to 121.7 million while that of Vodafone jumped to 94.14 million at the end of January.

Idea Cellular along with Spice Communications have added 2.27 million users taking it to a total 59.88 million, thus retaining its position as the third largest GSP operator.

However, BSNL is closing the gap with Idea. The state-run teleco has added 2.2 million new users last month taking its total subscriber base to 59.45 million.

Aircel has added 2 million new users, taking its user base to 33 million and MTNL added a mere 45,067 users taking its users base to 4.6 million.

The data do not contain the subscriber addition of Tata Docomo, the GSM services of Tata Teleservices and Reliance Telecom.

[KumaarShah 143]

Does that imply that the subscriber additions are more than 13.7 mn users in january 2010? or does that figure include RCOM and TATA? If the latter, then why individual figures of RCOM and TATA alone are not mentioned? Something's not right here....

[srk006 21]

13.7million is excluding Tata and RCOM!

Tata has added 3million in Jan10. RCOM's figure will be released soon.

[srk006 21]

RCom adds 2.8 mn users in Jan 2010

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom) today said it has added 2.8 million new wireless subscribers in January.

The company added 2.8 million wireless subscribers on both its GSM and CDMA platforms, RCom spokesperson said.

RCom, which launched its nationwide GSM services in January last year, currently offers telephony services on both the GSM and CDMA platforms.

Its wireless subscriber base stood at over 94 million as on January 2010.

With an addition of 19.10 million users, the total wireless subscriber base in the country stood at 525.15 million at the end of December 2009, according to sectoral regulator TRAI.

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[::Hitesh:: 1,763]

Still RGSM need to improve more to get more users !

[swapnil05in 2]

tis means TATA is a clear leader for six months in a row.

Congratulations to TATA if it is so.

[savramesh 37]

India adds record 19.9 mln mobile subscribers in Jan

Bharti Airtel 2.85m

Reliance Comm 2.80m

Vodafone Essar 2.74m

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd 2.25m

Tata Teleservices 2.98m

Idea Cellular 2.28m

Aircel 2.01m

Sistema Shyam Teleservices 213,291

Loop Telecom 51,853

Unitech Wireless 1,330,276

S Tel BTEL.BH 364,768

[me_saket 73]

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Tata Tele grows by 1.8 mn users in Feb

4 Mar 2010, 1550 hrs IST, REUTERS

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KOLKATA: Tata Teleservices Ltd, India's fifth-largest mobile services provider, has added around 1.8 million subscribers in February and expects

to reach 75 million users by March next year, a senior official said on Thursday.

Tata Tele , 26 per cent owned by Japan's NTT DoCoMo, had outpaced bigger rivals Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar in January by adding 3 million users.

"We are expecting that the next year for the industry would be stable and with our services both on GSM and CDMA platforms we would be able to reach around 75 million by the end of March 2011 and be in the fourth position", Abhijit Sanyal, national sales head, told Reuters.

[vvinayakpai 26]

Just 1.8 million by the operator who has been adding more than 3 million subscribers a month for the past six months??????????????

Maybe subscriber additions have started stabilising for Tata. Now upto the newer operators starting sevices to be in the limelight, at least for a short while though and enjoy their moments of glory

[savramesh 37]

50% of Gujarat's population owns a mobile phone: Trai

The telecom industry is flourishing in the country, and Gujarat’s contribution to its growth is stunning — the state is the seventh in India to cross the three crore mobile phone subscription mark.

According to a report released recently by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), Gujarat crossed the milestone in January this year. Given that the state has a population of about six crore, it means thatone in every two persons in Gujarat flashes a mobile phone.

Trai’s figures indicate that Gujarat has more than 50% mobile density; the numbers reflect a high demand from the state’s rural areas . Trai report suggests that around 85% of the three crore subscribers prefer pre-paid connections to post-paid.

In May 1997, when the incoming charge for a call was Rs8 per minute, there were only 4,100 mobile connections in Gujarat. It took 10 years for the state to touch the one crore mark. However, the number of subscribers increased remarkably thereafter.

It took only another 17 months for that figure to double. And by the end of January 2010, that is, in only about 15 months, Gujarat recorded a total of 3,01,41,470 mobile phone connections, the Trai report says. The total mobile phone or wireless connections in the country, by the end of January 2010, was at 54.50 crore.

Gujarat contributes 5.2% to the national mobile phone subscriptions.“Gujarat has already crossed the 50% penetration mark,” said Shivan Bharagava, the COO of Bharti Airtel, Gujarat Circle. “And although there is 100% penetration in urban areas, the bulk of opportunities that liein the rural segment are yet to be tapped.”

[srk006 21]

Bharti adds 2.9 mln users in Feb: Industry

Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top mobile operator, added 2.9 million mobile users in February and took its total subscribers to 124.6

million, data released by an industry body showed on Thursday.

Third-ranked Vodafone Essar, controlled by Vodafone, signed up 3.09 million mobile users last month, to boost its total to 97.2 million, the Cellular Operators Association of India said. Fifth-ranked Idea Cellular gained 2.26 million mobile subscribers, taking its total to 62.1 million.

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Vodafone overtakes Airtel in monthly additions once again.

[me_saket 73]

what is rcom addition?

I think definately below 2.0million

[savramesh 37]

Vodafone adds more subscribers in Feb

NEW DELHI: Vodafone Essar added the highest number of mobile users in the country last month beating market leader Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices, in the world’s fastest-growing telecom market.

Vodafone Essar’s total subscriber base in India rose to 97.2 million as it added over 3 million new users, ahead of Bharti Airtel who added 2.9 million last month to remain the largest player with 124.6 million subscribers, as per sector regulator Trai.

The industry added over 18 million new mobile users last month, lower than 19.09 million added in January. The total number of phone connections, including mobile and landline, crossed 600 million, up 3.2% from 581.81 million in January, Trai said on Monday.

Tata Teleservices signed 2.8 million new users, but slipped to third spot after topping subscriber additions for over six months. Reliance Communications also added 2.8 million new users while Idea - Spice added over 2 million new subscribers, followed by Aircel with 1.8 million new users. State-owned telcos — BSNL and MTNL — together roped in about 1.7 million new mobile users. In contrast, new private player Sistema Shyam’s subscriber base fell to 3.17 million from 3.18 million in January.

The subscriber base in the wireline segment declined 1% to 36.96 million in February led by BSNL and MTNL. But private players like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices added users even in wireline

market. The total number of internet users grew 6.95% to 8.59 million in February.

[me_saket 73]

rcom loosing market share